Twaalf scènes uit het leven van een slecht opgevoede vrouw
Medium
etching
Dimensions
204; 366
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 240
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie, a prolific German artist and engraver of the Enlightenment era, created *Twaalf scènes uit leven van een slecht opgeede vrouw* ("Twelve Scenes from the Life of a Badly-Up Woman") in 1779. As director of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, Chodowiecki specialized in intimate genre scenes and moralistic illustrations that commented on 18th-century social norms, often drawing from literature and everyday life. This etching, measuring 204 mm high by 366 mm wide, exemplifies his mastery of small-scale narrative prints, which were widely reproduced and collected for the...
About the Artist
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki · 1726–1801
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (1726–1801) was a German painter and printmaker of Polish-Huguenot descent who became the most celebrated graphic artist in 18th-century Germany. Born in Danzig (now Gdańsk), he created approximately 2,000 etchings that serve as an invaluable visual record of German bourgeois life during the Enlightenment. Largely self-taught, Chodowiecki moved to Berlin in 1743 and ach...